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2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
61 Degrees Awarded
$30,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor's

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 611 people earned their degree in bioethics/medical ethics, making the major the 588th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great bioethics/medical ethics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the bioethics/medical ethics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Houston Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s. Houston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree medical ethics students list, HBU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,962 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students per year to attend HBU.

Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Houston Baptist University

#2

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. SLU is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 6 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

SLU also made our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for SLU is $28,188 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Saint Louis University

#3

University of Richmond

University of Richmond, Virginia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Richmond landed the #3 spot on the list. URichmond is a small school located in University of Richmond, Virginia that handed out 25 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

URichmond did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Richmond is $25,838 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Richmond Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

#4

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Miami. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. U Miami is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Coral Gables, Florida. It awarded 3 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

U Miami did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $46,949 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students per year to attend U Miami.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Bioethics/Medical Ethics at University of Miami

#5

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rochester. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Rochester is $29,522 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at University of Rochester

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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